One day Yao-shan Wei-yen (750-834), one of the well-known Chinese Ch'an master, was asked by the host of the monastery to give his sermon to the assembly who for a long while was expecting his teaching. Yao-shan said: "Strike the bell."

Birth itself provided the first real pain of separation from the non-worded womb. So, when we exist in silence we return to the peace that no word can ever attain or supply. The first cry of a newborn is created in the form of a first word, created out of our first love in formless silence.

Just say nope pope. Say, it's a marriage of heaven and hell and the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite. [Blakey] Then say, if pity is divine, self-pity is diabolical. And then take all your clothes off - check this moon out.

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Reply from CrazyHorse

Feb.01.2009
11:37AM EDT

About perception. I know I am fooled by it. Perception seeks to separate me from my continuity with the universe at large. This intended sense of separateness is therefore an illusion as I am actually the universe expressing itself. I think this sense of separateness is a property of the mind / ego that makes me feel alienated from everything else. It is a powerful property. But it is not correct IMO.